The Best Music Boxed Sets of 2023
variety.combox in “boxed sets.” Here are a dozen-plus doorstops that rocked our writers’ world this year, including elaborate sets from Prince, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Jason Isbell, the Who, Charlie Parker, Costello/Bacharach, the “Nuggets” era and the songwriters of Stax.
Forgive me if I shed some tears of joy over “Tim: Let It Bleed Edition,” a collection that instantly vaults nearly to the top of my list of the most essential album-centric boxed sets ever released.
And also some tears of regret — that I spent more than three and a half decades enjoying one of rock’s all-time best albums while also recognizing in the back of my head that something about it sounded ever-so-slightly off.
This set includes a brand new remix by Ed Stasium, who at one point had been talked about to work on the original 1985 “Tim” album; if the record had sounded like this at the time, maybe it would be even more widely regarded as a classic than it already is.
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